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  • Keeping Coal Alive In The Cowboy State

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  • The Surprising $6 Billion Market Born From The EV Boom

    Published 31 October 2019 | viewed 9,351 times

    Electric vehicles (EVs) are catching on faster than even their most ardent supporters ever expected, which inevitably means the pile of spent lithium-ion batteries that…

  • A Mining Explosion: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Green Revolution

    Published 31 October 2019 | viewed 40,524 times

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  • Coal’s Slow And Painful Demise Bankrupts Another Mining Giant

    Published 29 October 2019 | viewed 10,230 times

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  • Mining Industry Grapples With Costly Climate Ultimatum

    Published 25 October 2019 | viewed 15,193 times

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  • Scientists Want To Turn Asteroids Into Gas Stations

    Published 06 October 2019 | viewed 33,127 times

    Scientists planning to start mining the moon as early as 2025 may soon shift their attention to other celestial bodies as a new study suggests that there are about 1,000…

  • The Lithium Price Slide Isn’t Over Yet

    Published 05 October 2019 | viewed 19,478 times

    Despite the lofty expectations for demand from electric vehicles, where lithium-ion batteries dominate, prices for the raw material are now languishing at two-year lows. Free-on…

  • The War Over Critical Mineral Supply

    Published 29 September 2019 | viewed 15,097 times

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  • EV Makers Have A New Favorite Metal

    Published 12 July 2019 | viewed 10,769 times

    Battery metals tracker Adamas Intelligence says electric vehicle manufacturers deployed 57 percent more nickel in passenger EV batteries in May this year, compared to 2018. The…

  • New Electric Vehicles Contain Much More Lithium

    Published 22 April 2019 | viewed 10,546 times

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  • This Canadian Coal Plant Has Transformed Into A Solar Farm

    Published 06 April 2019 | viewed 22,099 times

    The former Nanticoke Generating Station site, located on the northern shore of Lake Erie, has been transformed into a 44-megawatt clean energy facility that hosts…

  • Lithium Miners Set Their Eyes On Unlikely Mining Country

    Published 02 March 2019 | viewed 14,424 times

    Lithium miners have set their eyes on Portugal, a country that doesn’t scream “mining” like other jurisdictions, but which already is Europe's biggest producer of…

  • Miners Eye The Moon For Trillion Dollar Payoff

    Published 02 March 2019 | viewed 54,288 times

    European scientists have announced plans to start mining the moon as early as 2025, though what they’ll be extracting is neither gold nor diamonds, but waste-free nuclear…

  • Is This The Tipping Point For Electric Vehicles?

    Published 16 February 2019 | viewed 19,497 times

    A new report by McKinsey forecasts a rapid switch from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles on the world's roads will be boosted by the plummeting costs of…

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    Published 26 January 2019 | viewed 15,386 times

    German auto maker giant Volkswagen has just upped its bet on electric vehicles (EVs) by announcing it will begin manufacturing batteries and charging stations for those cars,…

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    Published 22 January 2019 | viewed 14,737 times

    Private capital tracker Preqin says in an update that contrary to expectations, 2018 was another bumper year for the industry, particularly for natural resources investments.…

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